The Coronation of Cosimo I de' Medici
c. 1570
Etcher, French, c. 1525 - 1601/1604
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 36.3 × 50 cm (14 5/16 × 19 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2012.46.1.15
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 371, state i/ii
Associated Artworks
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Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Mirror of Roman Magnificence)
Antonio Lafreri, Antonio Salamanca, Tommaso Barlacchi, Giacomo Lauro, Étienne Dupérac, Vincenzo Luchino, Jacob Bos, Bartolomeo Faleti, Nicolas Beatrizet, Pedro Perret, Enea Vico, Ferrando Bertelli, Marco Dente, Monogrammist HCB
1544
The Statue of Pasquino
Italian 16th Century
1544
The Statue of Mars, called 'Pyrrhus'
Jacob Bos, Antonio Salamanca
1562
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1921
Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 98a.
1967
Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris, 1967: VIII.104.53
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.
Inscriptions
Lettered CR: "Essendo venuto in Roma il Ser.mo Gran Duca di Toscana per ringratiare S. S.ta' del Titolo concessagli et per conoronarsi a Di xviii di Febraro 1570 fece l'intrata publica solennemente accompagnato da tutta la Corte in mezzo a doi Car.li et fu ricevuto da S. S.ta' in Concistorio publico nella Sala Regia come nel presnte disegno si vede"
Wikidata ID
Q77259583